TSN & Sportsnet Carrying All Raptors Games Next Season

No more CBC and the Score for the Raptors it appears. All Raptors games next year to be shown on TSN, TSN2 and Sportnet which is now back.

Rogers Sportsnet, which got out of the basketball business three years ago, is getting back in.

Sources say the channel is about to finalize a three-year deal that will give it 35 Toronto Raptors games per season, as well as other National Basketball Association games. The 35 games will come at the expense of the CBC and The Score, neither of which will carry the Raptors next year.

I've got a friend who works at the Score and apparently the owner is someone in the Robert Sarver (the Phoenix Sun's owner) mode . Meaning that if the Raptor games weren't making a profit, or enough of a profit compared to showing Poker or some other pre-recorded nonsense, then he'd just get rid of it.

I've got a friend who works at the Score and apparently the owner is someone in the Robert Sarver (the Phoenix Sun's owner) mode . Meaning that if the Raptor games weren't making a profit, or enough of a profit compared to showing Poker or some other pre-recorded nonsense, then he'd just get rid of it.

So it may not be all MLSE's fault.

Well if MLSE would have put a better team on the court and not alienate their fan base by putting their games on 5 different channels that not everybody can afford or have access to. As well as having a more reasonable affordable ticket prices then ratings would have been up to justify all this.

I've got a friend who works at the Score and apparently the owner is someone in the Robert Sarver (the Phoenix Sun's owner) mode . Meaning that if the Raptor games weren't making a profit, or enough of a profit compared to showing Poker or some other pre-recorded nonsense, then he'd just get rid of it.

So it may not be all MLSE's fault.

The Score better still have Courtsurfing though.

nah, it's not john levy(score owner) greg sansone has been messing with everything ever since he took over as head of programming.

it's starting to really piss me off.

If Your Uncle Jack Helped You Off An Elephant, Would You Help Your Uncle Jack Off An Elephant?

Sometimes, I like to buy a book on CD and listen to it, while reading music.

Ahh TSN 2, the purveyors of the Jackie Awards. Gonna be another great year in broadcasting....so with CBC out, does that mean we won't hear those famous words out of Devlin's creampie mouth...."PUUUUNJAAAABIIIIIII"

But wait, did you see this in the Tor Star article:
"All games will be carried nationally, which may mean some of the games will be aired on a yet unlaunched Sportsnet channel."

Unless CBC nixed an extension, not having national telecasts is not particularly a positive for the Raptor brand...but then again TSN and Sportsnet may have expanded their national reach where it doesnt make a difference except to the Inuit and really far out communities.

This sucks. I loved Raps games on The Score. But I guess they figured Bosh will be gone next year and the team will be in the dumps, so they're skipping next season. Might not be a bad idea for them profit-wise. I mean, who doesn't love poker or horse racing, or some other shit like that right? Right?